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Down to Earth In late July, Virgin Galactic conducted a third powered test flight of their new SpaceShipTwo spaceplane. In a ceremony at Johnson Space Center, NASA announced the names of the astronauts...
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Down to Earth Exos Aerospace successfully launched their first suborbital rocket in New Mexico. One of the astronaut candidates from NASA’s class of 2017 has resigned before completing his training for...
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Down to Earth A Chinese commercial rocket company, OneSpace, successfully launched their second suborbital OS-X1 flight. The Canadian Space Agency is promoting the upcoming flight of their astronaut...
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Down to Earth NASA’s Marshall SpaceFlight Center has a new Director, Jody Singer. Members of the Jet Propulsion Lab’s media relations team have won an Emmy Award for coverage of the Cassini mission....
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Down to Earth The big news this week was the aborted ascent of Soyuz MS-10, planned to take Nick Hague and Aleksey Ovchinin to the International Space Station. The abort occurred 2 minutes into the...
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Down to Earth Microsoft co-founder and commercial spaceflight pioneer Paul Allen died last week. Rocket Lab has decided it will operate a launch site from Wallops Island, Virginia. In Orbit There have...
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Down to Earth A major election took place in the USA this month, with implications for the future of NASA and space exploration, among many other policy concerns. Here is a brief summary from The...
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Down to Earth NASA has announced the chosen landing site of the upcoming 2020 Mars rover: Jezero Crater. The European Space Agency (ESA) delivered the service module that will be used by NASA’s Orion...
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It’s been a busy and important few weeks in spaceflight. Some major milestones linked below. Down to Earth NASA announced nine recipients in the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. Virgin...
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Down to Earth The United States federal government remains partial shutdown as it has been since mid-December. This is far more than a story about NASA, of course. But since this is a space blog, here...
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